Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-10-29
Boots and shoes, at Smith 4 F,tch's.


nection with the Hills towns.
For sash, doors, and wall paper call
at Fred Heidepriem's.
Buffalo Gap was represented in this
place by 81 Of her citizens during court.
In the march of empire you will find
that J. Cochran sells good goods, cheap
for cash.
The Fairview mill on Castle creek
will commence dropping stamps in a
few days.
Clothing and furnishing goods, at
Smith & Fitch's.
+. n. Flynn Of this city was admitted
to the bar during the late term of court
in this place.
You can get better boots and shoes at
Smith & Fitch's for less money than at
any other house in town.
The Standby is dropping 40 stamps.
II is said to pay a small margin over
expenses in its operation.
Say, Bob, how did yon like the show7
Well, it did not strike me half as forci-
BILE as j. Cochran, selling goods way
down for cash.
The grand jury at the late term of
court IN this city returned IA true bills,
Is no bills, and 2 presentments.
Go to Heidepriem's for plain and
fancy window shades, shade cloths, win
dow cornices, &C., where everything is
sold at bedrock prices.
The Lookout mill near Rockford has
suspended operations for the season.
Rumor says it has been successful.
Ifyou want to make your wife and
daughters a good present go to Smith q
Fitch's and get a Tricot dress.
The Rapid City Fair Association have
entered suit against a number of delin-
quent subscribers to its capital stock.
Assaying done at Booth & Webster's
Gold, 3 100 silver, $1.00; gold and sill
yer, $3.50; copper 81 so; tin $l.00; nickel
$500.
The Galena smelter Is operating sue
cessfully, having completed its second
carload of bullion since last blown in.
Hats, caps and gloves, at
Smith & Fitch's.
Track laying north of Sturgis is going
ahead rapidly, and at latest advices, it
was believed that Selbie would be
reached to-day.
III you want anything in the line Of
hardware, fancy and staple groceries,
stoves, ;-sh AM glassware, mining sup
plies, farm implements, iron, steel, etc.,
etc., go to Cochran's, the cheapest house
in the Black Hills.
A number of our residents have taken
contracts during the week to complete
the assessment work on Harvey Peak
tin locations.
Custer supports two permanent
butcher shop in addition to a number
on wheels, which periodically appear
on the streets.
The name Of the winter terminal
point on the F., Z. & M. V. has been
changed by the company from Selbie to
Whitewood.
Seventeen attorneys were in attend
ance at the late term of the district
court in this city, six Of whom were
residents Of this city.
r. l.. Albertson, formerly railroad
agent at Rapid, has beer transferred to
Selbie. NJ. J. Baldwin succeeding him
as agent at the former place,
The five-inch snow which fell in this
place early in the week succumbed to
the suns warm rays on Thursday, leav-
ing the streets comparatively bare.
William Hecht is the republican, and
L. M. Humphrey the democratic
nominee for county commissioner for
the first district of Pennington county.
Passengers on the Elkhorn road for
Deadwood now take the tally-ho at
Sturgis, and the call aboard for Dead
wood" Of the stage driver is no longer
heard at Gate City.
The Harvey Peas company are busily
engaged representing their tin claims.
About sixty men are now employed in
the different camps between, and in
Guiding, the Eta and Tin Reef.
Barney McCrossan, a merchant well
known in the Hills, was married at
Spearfsh on Wednesday to Miss Jones,
of Lawrence county. They will be at
home at Sundance in the future.
The Oscar Silver building, on West
Custer Avenue, is being rented, and
will shortly be occupied by Walter
schoonmaker, who contemplates put
ting in q v~ariegated stock of merchap-
disc.
Operations on the Tin Mountain have
been somewhat hampered Of late on ac-
count of the difficulty in securing men.
an idle man is more difficult to find in
this locality at present, than at any
previous time during the past ten